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Myth Quotes by Naomi Wolf
- Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty "fixes" that harm…
- As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth redefined it as…
- Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn angrily upon this…
- The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only…
- No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her…
- As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.
- The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.
- The surgeons are playing on the myth's double standard for the function of the body. A man's thigh is for walking, but a woman's is…
- Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from actually seeing women.…
- Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a body but not…
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